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  <name><![CDATA[Red Evans]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A Rollicking Good Time On Ice is the way it turned out when I started writing about Eldy Brewer, Felton Haliday and Whistler, and their goal of reuniting their deceased friend with his first love Leona LeSeur. To them, taking their friend across the country in the back of a pick up truck, kept fresh in a kiddy pool of convenience store ice cubes, seemed perfectly natural.
Over thirty years in broadcasting, first as The Rockin’ Redhead and then as a serious television journalist, prepared me for writing fiction. During my formative years in TV, I was a great admirer of the late Charles Kuralt and his “On the Road” segments on CBS. 
Although television is a visual medium, Kuralt knew that painting with words was not of less importance, but of more importance when coupled with film. Kuralt was so effective in sparking the imagination of viewers that many thought they had seen things in the film clips he narrated that were not there at all.
Kuralt’s writing for television was virtually an art form that you don’t see in contemporary news writing which appears to be written on an almost juvenile level. It was in that era that I learned to write, to use words judiciously, sparingly, and to listen to what I wrote as well as read it.
I Hope you can hear the story of On Ice as you read it.
I’m a three-career guy, maybe even four. A radio personality when I was young, spinning Elvis, Fats, and the drifters in places like Tallahassee Florida, Spartanburg, and in my home town of Charleston, South Carolina. I was the Rockin’ Redhead, a wisecracking adlibbing deejay with voice mimics and catch phrases such as aaaawscoooobeeeedoooo! IT WAS A BLAST!
Alas, I outgrew all that and got serious, turning to news which occupied my focus for the next twenty years and eventually led to lobbying Congress in Washington, DC and public speaking. Fifteen years later, after I retired I began my fourth career, writing fiction.
A brief word about ON Ice, and how it came to be: One day, my daughter overheard during an elevator ride a conversation between some good old boys talking in muted tones about the passing of an aunt or uncle. One of them described how they decided that the best thing to do was to take the deceased to the funeral home in the back of their pickup truck. It wasn’t clear whether the decision was cost driven or otherwise, but the speakers seemed to think it was not at all odd to do it that way. 
When I heard about it, my imagination took off. I visualized so many funny incidents that might occur on such a trip that I decided I should enter the possible story line in my computer. The story almost wrote itself, material flowed almost faster than I could write it. 
It is my belief that to be a successful writer you must enjoy the exercise. If that’s true, On Ice will be a best seller because it was an absolute joy to write. I laughed and I cried at my own stuff. I hope you derive as much pleasure reading On Ice as I had bringing to life Eldy, Felton and Whistler.
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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